Age Collective

Age Collective is a cross-sector partnership
project that explores how museums could work more effectively with
and for older audiences.

Age Collective is led by the British Museum in partnership with
Glasgow Museums, Manchester Museum and National Museums Northern
Ireland. The project was supported during 2012-13 by the Esmée
Fairbairn Foundation.

Age Collective aims

Listen to the voices of older adults

Explore the needs of diverse communities of older people and the
varied provision for meeting these needs across the UK

Share good practice

Develop ideas to support museums across the UK to better cater
for the older people within their localities in partnership with
other organisations

Develop inter-disciplinary partnerships

Encourage social care, health and advice providers for older
people to view museums as potential valuable partners

Formulate a shared action plan

Create a cross-sector network to drive change, with the aim of
increasing opportunities and wellbeing for the diverse communities
of older people in different parts of the UK

Research

Improve the work that we do; formulate new ways of collaborating
with other sectors and disciplines to locate new areas for
collaborative research